About Us:Tavares is a waterfront community that offers a variety of activities and events. Downtown visitors will find an entertainment district that has an international assortment of restaurants, pubs and music venues. Also in downtown Tavares, is Wooton Park, home to the Tavares Seaplane Base, the children’s Splash Park and more than 16 major community events each year.

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City of Tavares —

Tavares has long been known as the county seat and hub of government activity in Lake County, Florida. It is currently emerging as the areas fastest growing “Entertainment District” with vast improvements to its waterfront area along Lake Dora including the development of the region’s newest Seaplane base, Children’s Splash Park and through the City’s overwhelming encouragement and sponsorship to bring in world class Fishing, Water sports and Music events to the residents and visitors of Tavares, FL.

Stop by for lunch, or stay the weekend, and enjoy a seaplane ride, take a boat tour, or find out which historical figures are haunting downtown on the Séance Ghost Tours. Board the Orange Blossom Cannonball and take a journey back in time on an original 1907 steam engine. Known as the movie train, it has appeared in numerous movies and has been ridden by dozens of Hollywood starts.